Wayne discusses a number of personnel concerns including the discharging of men of no value and promoting those who are worthy. There are several vacancies to be filled in the officer corps and a need to replace or repair three defective howitzers.

I hope we shall now be able to go on with the muster & inspection of the troops: but we will be under the necessity of discharging many of the men, who never were nor never will be fit for service; they are at present a nuisance to the legion, and a useless expence to the publick